Diffraction of wavepackets in space and time

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/33/311MaRDI QIDQ2766175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Kälbermann

Publication date 27 January 2002

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0008077

zbMATH Keywords

attractive or repulsive time-independent potentialDirac equationsimulated numericallywavepacket quantum scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-04) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

Abstract: The phenomenon of wave packet diffraction in space and time is described. It consists in a diffraction pattern whose spatial location progresses with time. The pattern is produced by wave packet quantum scattering off an attractive or repulsive time independent potential. An analytical formula for the pattern at $toinfty$ is derived both in one dimension and in three dimensions. The condition for the pattern to exist is developed. The phenomenon is shown numerically and analytically for the Dirac equation in one dimension also. An experiment for the verification of the phenomenon is described and simulated numerically.

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